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An Assessment Of Viable Habitat For Blanding's Turtle (Emydodidea Blandingii) In The State Of Ohio Using Gis And Remote Sensing, Bradley M. Poynter
An Assessment Of Viable Habitat For Blanding's Turtle (Emydodidea Blandingii) In The State Of Ohio Using Gis And Remote Sensing, Bradley M. Poynter
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The Blanding's Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) has received threatened status in the State of Ohio in 2010. The goal of this study is to provide information that can be used in conservation management to locate suitable habitat for conservation of the species as well as potential repatriation or trans location sites. Wetland Inventory and Land Use/Land Cover maps were combined with aerial photography to evaluate regions located in Ohio's Lake Erie Drainage Basin that would meet the essential requirements of the turtles life history by quantitative methods used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing programs. This study identified suitable …